Cinema Judaica collection

Identifier: irn614181
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn614181

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 and 2019 by Ken Sutak and Sherri Venokur.

Scope and Content

The Cinema Judaica Collection consists of posters, lobby and photo cards, scene stills, pressbooks, trade ads, programs, magazines, books, VHS tapes, DVDS, and 78 rpm records relating to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical subjects, from 1923 to 2000, from the United States, Europe, Israel, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina.

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Displaying items 1 to 20 of 191

"Confessions of a Nazi Spy" herald
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn564465
- English
- 1939
- Updated 1 year ago
Poster for the film "The Search" with autograph by Jarmila Novotná
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn634797
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Poster: for the film "The Search" with autograph by Jarmila Novotná. This object is one of more than 1,200 objects in the Cinema Judaica Collection of materials related to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical themes.
Pressbook
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn634799
- English
- overall: Height: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Pressbook for "Confessions of a Nazi Spy"; Two newsprint ads for "Confessions of a Nazi Spy"; Lobby card for "Women in War." This object is one of more than 1,200 objects in the Cinema Judaica Collection of materials related to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical themes.
Women in War, U.S. Lobby card
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn676042
- English
- overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
This object is one of more than 1,200 objects in the Cinema Judaica Collection of materials related to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical themes.
Two newsprint ads for "Confessions of a Nazi Spy"
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn676043
- English
- a: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) b: Height: 11.380 inches (28.905 cm) | Width: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Two newsprint ads for "Confessions of a Nazi Spy." This object is one of more than 1,200 objects in the Cinema Judaica Collection of materials related to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical themes.
Poster: Au revoir les enfants
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn676519
- English
- overall: Height: 41.000 inches (104.14 cm) | Width: 27.000 inches (68.58 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Accretion to Cinema Judaica, Epic Cycles material: Poster: Au revoir les enfants, 1987
Program: Noah's Ark
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn677665
- English
- overall: Height: 6.880 inches (17.475 cm) | Width: 9.880 inches (25.095 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Accretion to Cinema Judaica, Epic Cycles material: Program: Noah's Ark starring Delores Costello and George O'Brien, 1928
Poster: We Were So Beloved
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn692214
- English
- overall: Height: 38.000 inches (96.52 cm) | Width: 25.190 inches (63.983 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Accretion to Cinema Judaica, Epic Cycles material: Poster: We Were So Beloved; The German Jews of Washington Heights, 1985
Lobby card for the film “Confessions of a Nazi Spy” (1939)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn692913
- English
- 1939
- Overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 13.875 inches (35.243 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Lobby card, distributed by Vitagraph (a Warner Bros. subsidiary), for the American feature film “Confessions of a Nazi Spy” released by Warner Bros. Pictures in May 1939. Lobby cards are promotional materials placed in theater lobby windows to highlight specific movie scenes, rather than the broader themes often depicted on posters. The film was chosen as Best Picture of the Year by the National Board of Review in 1939. Based on articles written in the New York Post by ex-agent Leon G. Turrou, the film recounts a fictionalized version of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Rumrich N...
Scene still from the film “Hitler, Beast of Berlin" (1939)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn692914
- English
- Overall: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Scene still from the American feature film “Hitler, Beast of Berlin,” originally released by Producers Pictures Corporation in October 1939, and re-released in 1942. Scene stills are photographs taken on or off the set of a motion picture and are then used as marketing and advertising tools. After encountering opposition from censorship boards, the film was alternatively called “Goose Step,” the title of the adapted novel, and eventually released as “Beasts of Berlin.” In the film, Hans Memling, his wife, and his brother-in-law are members of an underground Nazi-resistance movement. He is a...
Trade advertisement for the “This is America” film series that includes “Women at Arms” (1943)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn692915
- English
- Overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Double-page trade advertisement for the film series, “This Is America,” including the short film “Women at Arms,” removed from a British trade publication. “This Is America” was a series of nonfiction, patriotic short films released by RKO. The second of the series, “Women at Arms” contrasted the wartime roles of women in the United States and Germany. In the 1930s and 1940s, the Nazi government idealized German women who focused on the domestic sphere and raising children, and were often compelled to leave the workplace. The government offered public support for families, and awarded the C...
Lobby card for the film “Hitler’s Madman” (1943)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn692916
- English
- Overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Lobby card for the American feature film, “Hitler’s Madman,” released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in June 1943. Lobby cards are promotional materials placed in theater lobby windows to highlight specific movie scenes, rather than the broader themes often depicted on posters. “Hitler’s Madman” is a fictionalized portrayal of the assassination and of Reinhard Heydrich and its aftermath. Heydrich was Heinrich Himmler’s second-in-command and chief of the Reich Security Main office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt, RSHA), which was the major implementer of the systematic murder of European Jews. He was esp...
Hangmen Also Die U.S. Re-release Pressbook
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn692917
- English
- Overall: Height: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
This object is one of more than 1,200 objects in the Cinema Judaica Collection of materials related to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical themes.
Set of four lobby cards for the film “Women in Bondage” (1944)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn692918
- English
- .1: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .2: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .3: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .4: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Set of four lobby cards for the American feature film, “Women in Bondage,” released by Monogram Pictures in January 1944. Lobby cards were promotional materials placed in theater lobby windows to highlight specific movie scenes, rather than the broader themes often depicted on posters. The film depicts the degradation in status that women experienced in Nazi-controlled Germany. The protagonist, Margot Bracken, returns to Germany after years away, and has difficulties conforming to her new role in the Third Reich. To create their new Aryan Germany, throughout the 1930s, the Nazi government g...
Women in Bondage, U.S. Pressbook
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn692919
- English
- Overall: Height: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
This object is one of more than 1,200 objects in the Cinema Judaica Collection of materials related to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical themes.
Scene still from the film “Women in Bondage” (1944)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn692920
- English
- Overall: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Scene still for the American feature film, “Women in Bondage,” released by Monogram Pictures in January 1944. Scene stills are photographs taken on or off the set of a motion picture and are then used as marketing and advertising tools. The film depicts the degradation in status that women experienced in Nazi-controlled Germany. The protagonist, Margot Bracken, returns to Germany after years away, and has difficulties conforming to her new role in the Third Reich. To create their new Aryan Germany, throughout the 1930s, the Nazi government glorified Aryan German women who focused on the dom...
Window card for the film “None Shall Escape” (1944)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn692921
- English
- Overall: Height: 22.000 inches (55.88 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Window card for the film, “None Shall Escape,” released by Columbia Pictures in 1944. Window cards were mass-produced promotional materials used until the mid-1980s. They included a blank section at the top for individual theaters to write in dates and show times, and were placed in locations outside of the theaters. “None Shall Escape” was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Story. The film jumps between a fictionalized post-World War II war crimes trial of a Nazi officer from Poland, and the events leading up to and during the war. The man is embittered after Germany’s defea...
Set of six lobby cards for the film “None Shall Escape” (1944)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn692922
- English
- .1: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .2: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .3: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .4: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .5: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .6: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Set of six lobby cards for the film, “None Shall Escape,” released by Columbia Pictures in 1944. Lobby cards are promotional materials placed in theater lobby windows to highlight specific movie scenes, rather than the broader themes often depicted on posters. “None Shall Escape” was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Story. The film jumps between a fictionalized post-World War II war crimes trial of a Nazi officer from Poland, and the events leading up to and during the war. The man is embittered after Germany’s defeat in World War I, becomes a follower of Adolf Hitler, rise...
Artwork print for the film “None Shall Escape” (1944)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn692923
- English
- Overall: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Photographic print of an illustration advertising the film, “None Shall Escape,” released by Columbia Pictures in 1944. “None Shall Escape” was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Story. The film jumps between a fictionalized post-World War II war crimes trial of a Nazi officer from Poland, and the events leading up to and during the war. The man is embittered after Germany’s defeat in World War I, becomes a follower of Adolf Hitler, rises in the ranks of the Nazi party, and returns to terrorize his home village. The film was inspired by President Franklin Roosevelt’s announce...
Argentine One Sheet poster for the film “None Shall Escape” (1944)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn692924
- English
- Overall: Height: 41.000 inches (104.14 cm) | Width: 27.000 inches (68.58 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Spanish-language, Argentinian poster advertising the film, “None Shall Escape,” released by Columbia Pictures in 1944. “None Shall Escape” was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Story. The film jumps between a fictionalized post-World War II war crimes trial of a Nazi officer from Poland, and the events leading up to and during the war. The man is embittered after Germany’s defeat in World War I, becomes a follower of Adolf Hitler, rises in the ranks of the Nazi party, and returns to terrorize his home village. The film was inspired by President Franklin Roosevelt’s announcem...

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